Graph convolution reinforcement learning for active wake control in windfarms: Application of a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm

Wind energy, generated by windfarms, is playing an increasingly critical role in meeting current and future energy demands. windfarms, however, face a challenge due to the inherent flaw of wake-induced power losses when turbines are located in close proximity. Wakes, characterized by regions of turbulence and lower wind speed, are created as air...

Prone-to-supine breast tumor registration using landmarks

During the preoperative planning for breast-conserving surgery, the surgeon makes use of an MRI scan of the breast cancer patient in the prone position to accurately locate the tumour. However, surgery is performed with the patient in the supine position. The surgeon needs to mentally translate the location of the tumour from the prone position...

CMUT-based Acoustic Cell Sorting

Particle sorting is an important step in many biological and biomedical techniques. One sorting technique that has received a lot of attention is based on acoustophoresis. Manipulating cells with acoustic forces allows for a sorting method based on physical properties in a non-invasive, label-free, and biocompatible manner. To date, acoustic...

Exploring the design space for Wellbeing in the context of digital experience: A sensitizing toolkit design

The Netflix documentary, ‘The Social Dilemma’, has shown that ubiquitous digital platforms such as Facebook, YouTube tend to use artificial intelligence to optimize the system for user engagement. The documentary provides an example of why metrics that optimize engagement, such as time-on-site, can be detrimental to our society. Overemphasizing...

Towards social meaningful participation: An explorative study into meaningful participation processes becoming socially sustainable in mixed-use urban area developments

During the last decade, the acknowledgement for sustainability has arisen to meet the demands for then and future generations. Thereby, the attention has shifted to incorporate the civic demands into urban planning processes. By 2021, a mandatory integration of participation will be obliged from a governmental perspective due to the...

Using Publisher Partisanship for Partisan News Detection: A Comparison of Performance between Annotation Levels

News is the main source of information about events in our neighborhood and around the globe. In an era of digital news, where sources vary in quality and news spreads fast, it is critical to understand what is being consumed by the public. Partisan news is news that favors certain political parties or ideologies. It is undesirable because news...

Exposure Render Web Service

During the Bachelor End Project we have been tasked with developing a web portal for the Exposure Render. The Exposure Render is able to interactively visualize volumetric data to photo realistic images. This means that the web portal would allow users to view a visualization of their medical data.<br/>The requirements of the web portal have...

Hardware Components for Real-Time Stereo Matching: Acceleration of 3D HD TV with FPGAs

In recent 3D TV market, the technologies addressing to the applications such as stereoscopic depth scaling, glass-free 3D display, and Free Viewpoint TV are getting more attentions. A low-cost solution that can synthesize intermediate views from stereoscopic input contents(left and right camera views) is strongly needed. To render the...

Sustainability, Behavior, & Design: Gentle Guidelines for Future Mobile CE

This graduation project is one of two from Delft University of Technology that were initiated with the User Experience (UX) Research Group at Samsung Electronics to address the role of consumer electronics (CE) in more sustainable consumption and behavior for young professionals. This project started with a strong position on how to approach...

Setting sustainability targets: A design agency perspective

One could say that product development is unsustainable by nature. However, during innovation processes there are many opportunities for more sustainable practices. Although enterprises and design agencies might feel the urge to contribute in this field, it is a complex issue to deal with. There is no step-by-step approach, no guideline that is...